#cat

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#decent #education #improve #incomes #poor

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#always #bed #cat #come #dog

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#ever #evils #go #identification #instance

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#because #education #education programs #i #i can

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. ↗

— William Bennett

#against #attention #avoid #business #call

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#does #food #give #glance #much

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. ↗

— Paul Berg

#contributions #curiosity #education #i #important

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think. ↗

— Peter Berg

#defines #failure #great #great success #had